Meteor with (1) Npm and Async tools, (2) q.js promises

meteor-async-example.js

// feature: blocking and server side only
// uses: https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-npm
// install: mrt add npm
blockingRequest = function (verb, url, data) {
    return Async.runSync(function (done) {
        HTTP.call(verb, url, data, function (error, result) {
            done(error, result);
        });
    });
};

// example:
console.log('START');
var response = blockingRequest('GET', 'http://localhost/api/books');
console.log('ERROR:', response.error);
console.log('DATA:', response.result);
console.log('END');

// feature: non blocking, server and client side 
// uses: https://github.com/kriskowal/q
// install: mrt add q
nonBlockingRequest = function (verb, url, data) {
    var deferred = Q.defer();
    HTTP.call(verb, url, data, function (error, result) {
        deferred.reject(error);
        deferred.resolve(result);
    });
    return deferred.promise;
};

// example:
console.log('START');
nonBlockingRequest('GET', 'http://localhost/api/books').then(function (result) {
    console.log('DATA:', result);
}, function (error) { 
    console.log('ERROR:', error) 
});
console.log('END');